Fall Radishes Planted and KitchenAid Repaired

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October 18, 2026

On September 25, I planted the former potato bed, the one we had covered with black heavy duty contractor bags. I planted radishes, Japanese greens, spinach, beets, lettuce, and carrots. I used the square foot garden method for planting each square foot. It took a lot longer than planting in rows. I don’t follow the square foot method completely. The link above will take you to the Square Foot Gardening Foundation, which has detailed information on square foot gardening.

Bruce gathered up downed branches in the reclaimed area, placing them into the tractor bucket. Once the bucket was full, he drove the tractor down the driveway and dumped the branches in the garage pickup area.

I was so hot and tired after all the planting that I didn’t water the newly planted seeds.

On September 26, I spent the morning watering the vegetable garden beds. We really need an irrigation system.

Bruce continued to put together his new computer. He ran several test to confirm everything was working correctly as he added more components.

After the cucumber tornado incident (see “Bruce Still Being Considered for Jury Duty and a Cucumber Tornado“), I tried to find a video on putting the attachment cap back on. I found an article that made it sound as though the attachment caps often come off. The article recommended having a spare in case you misplace the one from the mixer. I couldn’t find anything that described how to put the attachment cap back on. Given the lack of information, I decided that putting the attachment cap on must be so easy that you don’t need instructions. I realized later that the attachment caps are very different between the tilt-head and the bowl-lift mixers. The tilt-head cap is a simple plug and is not attached, while the bowl-lift mixer hub is attached. I have a bowl-lift mixer.

On September 27, using his dead blow mallet, Bruce put the attachment cap back onto the KitchenAid mixer. I tried out the Spiralizer attachment on one of the mealy apples. It worked without any problems. I could now use my KitchenAid attachments again!

I sliced down one side of the spiralized apple, making apple rings. I wanted to do a test to see if the mealy apples’ texture would not be a problem when dehydrated. The one apple would be my test subject to determine if the mealy apples could be successfully dehydrated.

On September 28, Bruce started his mowing again.

I spotted two Gulf fritillaries. One of them had damage to scales on the left top wing shown in the dorsal view.

Ventral View of Undamaged Butterfly
Dorsal View of Damaged Butterfly

I didn’t get a picture of the sunset on any of these days.

19 thoughts on “Fall Radishes Planted and KitchenAid Repaired”

  8. It is weird to think of planting in October! How long before you have produce? FYI I was gone for 2 weeks on 2 different back to back trips, so my routine has been very messed up and I am way behind on reading blog posts.

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I am a retired software solutions architect. I have been married to my husband, Bruce, for over forty years. We went full-time RVing for 3.5 years and saw much of the United States. After deciding to stop RVing, we bought a ranch house halfway up a hill on five acres. After Bruce and I talked about names for our five acres, we settled on Blackberry Homestead as a homage to the wild blackberries on the hill. We are working on creating our homestead. I love cooking and enjoy sharing recipes. I am also an artist, and I’ll share my current projects. Gardening and reading are my favorite hobbies.